Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: History Minor Minimum Credits Required:__________________

History Minor

College of Liberal Arts >> History 

24 hours; 2.0 minor GPA required

Required Courses (12 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
HIST 246 - U.S. History in a Global Context

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
HIST 266 - Global History

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
HIST 288 - The Historians Craft
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
HIST 298 - Historical Methods

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3

Elective Courses (12 hours)

History minors must select a minimum of 12 hours from the elective areas of history listed below. No more than 6 hours may be taken from any one area.

History Areas

Area I - United States History

Students completing a History major with the optional history teaching emphasis must complete HIST 339 as one of their Area I courses.

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
HIST 222 - Roots of Communalism

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Social Inquiry; Social Science (BS)


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
HIST 300 - Topics in U.S. History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 301 - Indigenous and Settler America
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 302 - Colonial America to 1740
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 303 - The American Revolution, 1740-1787
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 304 - The Early American Republic, 1787-1848
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 305 - Civil War America, 1848-1877
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 306 - The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1877-1920
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 307 - The United States in Depression and World War, 1914-1945
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 308 - United States since 1945
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 311 - Gender and Sexuality in American History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 313 - Immigration and Ethnicity in America
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 315 - American Environmental History
Term(s) Offered:
Credits: 3
HIST 316 - The Vietnam War
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 336 - African American History to 1865
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
HIST 337 - African American History Since 1863
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
HIST 339 - History of Indiana
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 399 - Independent Study in History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 400 - Topics in American History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 405 - The Modern Civil Rights Movement
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 411 - Religion in America
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 419 - Communal Utopias in America
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 431 - The American South
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 432 - The American West
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 454 - History and Film
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 456 - Race, Power, and Violence

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3

Area II - European History

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
HIST 320 - Topics in European History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 341 - Ancient Greece to Alexander
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 342 - The Hellenistic Age, Alexander to the Roman Conquest, 338-31 B.C.
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 343 - The Roman Republic
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 344 - The Roman Empire
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 345 - Medieval Europe
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 346 - Renaissance Europe
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 347 - European Reformations
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 348 - Europe, 1648 through Napoleon
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 349 - Europe, Napoleon to World War I
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 351 - Europe, World War I to the Present
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 353 - England to 1600
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 354 - Britain since 1600
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 362 - Modern Paris
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 365 - Crusades
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 372 - The Soviet Union
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 399 - Independent Study in History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 420 - Topics in European History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 451 - French Revolution and Napoleon
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 452 - European Revolutions
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 454 - History and Film
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 464 - The Social History of Murder

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Spring, every other year
Credits: 3
HIST 465 - The Social History of Ghosts

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity; Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, every other year
Credits: 3
HIST 499 - Senior Seminar in History

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3

Area III - World Regions

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
HIST 310 - Topics in World History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 331 - Colonial Latin American History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 332 - Modern Latin American History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 375 - The Making of the Islamic World
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 376 - The Modern Islamic World
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 377 - History of Iran
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 384 - History of Africa to 1800
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 385 - History of Africa since 1800
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 393 - Ancient and Early Imperial China
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 399 - Independent Study in History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 410 - Topics in World History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 470 - Pilgrimage in History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 478 - Steppe Empires
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3

Area IV - Professional Development

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed

Students completing a History major with the optional history teaching emphasis must complete the following two courses for Area IV:

HIST 287 - Introduction to History Teaching Methods
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
HIST 397 - Advanced History Teaching Methods
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3

 

All other students select from the following courses:

HIST 321 - Introduction to Historic Preservation
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 322 - Introduction to Historical Administration
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 323 - Introduction to Archival Practices
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 325 - Introduction to Public History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 330 - Topics in Public History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 398 - Historiography
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 399 - Independent Study in History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
HIST 490 - Internship/Special Studies in History
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 1-3
HIST 499 - Senior Seminar in History

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
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